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Creative
Can we say our region’s recent successes are more about creativity than the economy? Whether it’s bike friendly lofts at the West Side Community House, or Brite Winter’s Thomas Fox kicking off CreativeMornings every 3rd Friday, you don’t have to look far to see NEO’s creatives starting something new.Create your own zen with beer at Balance & Brews, grok the strange treasures of Tesori Strani at Moonstruck Gallery, express yourself with the new County Executive, help homeless animals at the Soup-R-Bowl, and revel in the 2-day, 40th Annual Sci-Fi Marathon.
Alex helps you create the perfect resume and Mansfield creates a new phrase, “The American Pigmentocracy” to describe the new system we appear to be living under. What are you creating this week? –Thomas Mulready
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Thomas Fox has been working within Cleveland creative community space for about five years. Working with the creative community on one level or another is something that he enjoys doing and has no signs of slowing down. Now he’s bringing CreativeMornings to CLE, a breakfast lecture series for the creative class.
“It winds up being this on-going creative conference with really creative people from all over the world talking…the concept is this one global theme per month, or relating to the the theme or having the person talk about this theme and the conversation is ongoing, regional and global,” says Fox…
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SPONSORED: Ring in the New Year on the Railroad! Join the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad on Opening Day Sat 1/17 for Scenic Rides or the popular Ales On Rails Beer Tasting ride featuring Superbowl Brews. Take your pick from 9AM to 7PM departures for a relaxing train ride through one of the most visited National Parks in the country: the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Check the schedule & get your tickets before they sell out by clicking here, and get more info at CVSR.com.
Looking for a new place to live in the Ohio City area? Look no further than the Lofts at the West Side Community House on Bridge Avenue located directly above the new Phoenix Coffee Cafe. The mix use building has been transformed into the first ever, “bike friendly,” residency in Cleveland, and is hosting a Happy Hour/Open House on Fri 1/16 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm.
If you can’t wait until Friday, don’t worry, neither could we! CoolCleveland Correspondent Marty Bielat met up with the project’s developer Damon Taseff and got an exclusive sneak peak. Check it out!
Calling All Trans Artists: Submit your work for Waterloo Arts’ next exhibition. The org is looking to submit the artwork for inclusion in a group exhibition showcasing work expressing issues regarding gender identity in contemporary society.
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SPONSORED: Explorer Series The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Curator of Botany Jim Bissell presents “25 Years of Change within Lake Erie Coastal Wetlands.” Learn about the restoration of local coastal marshes and the many plant species naturalists discovered while inventorying Lake Erie’s southern shoreline on Fri 1/23 at 7PM. Music/appetizers at 5:30PM. Details.
Recently a friend of mine interviewed a candidate who showed up with a 12-page resume. How this person even got through the doors of HR still baffles me.
Lots of questions on how long a resume should be and shouldn’t be. Here’s what I tell my clients and students: give yourself a page for each decade of experience. Of course there’s exceptions, especially if you’ve built yourself a nice media platform, but unless there’s something magical about you, keep it short. Here’s why…
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SPONSORED: The Cleveland Public Library honors Dr. King’s life and legacy at our 30th Annual Commemorative Celebration. The keynote speaker is Pastor Richard M. Gibson of Elizabeth Baptist Church. All are welcome to join the celebration on Mon 1/19 at 1PM at Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch. Check CPL.org for complete details.
If the promise of a bag of locally grown, raised or produced food isn’t enough to get you to the weekly Saturday Coit Road Farmers Market, maybe its schedule of hands-on demonstrations and workshops will. This year’s demos start with a pasta-making session co-hosted by the Little Lakewood Pasta Company, where visitors can learn how to make different types of pastas and then try it themselves. Check out the upcoming sessions, including smokies, pierogies and caring for cast-iron cookware. Sat 1/17.
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SPONSORED: One Flame, One Voice, One Dream Against a backdrop of renewed national dialogue around race, justice and reconciliation, Baldwin Wallace University and the city of Berea stage the 25th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, beginning with a Gospel Songfest on Sun 1/18. Free keynote lecture on Thu 1/22 features author and Cleveland native Charlise Lyles. Info at: BW.edu.
Think Social Security is only a pension check for seniors? The Social Security Act actually includes other important programs that make our country strong and our society secure, like Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment compensation, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
It embodies President Roosevelt’s commitment to place “…the security of the men, women, and children of the nation first” and reflects decades of work on both sides of the political aisle. Learn more about the 80-year legacy of the Act and how it impacts all of us in this video from The Center for Community Solutions.
SPONSORED: The Kent Stage is Epic in 2015 Start off with local faves Glass Harp & Hard Day’s Night then legends like Al Stewart, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Tim Reynolds & TR3, The David Bromberg Quintet, Beth Hart and Jesse Cook, plus major talents like The Wailers with Carlos Jones, Peter Yarrow, Justin Townes Earle, The Robert Cray Band, Leon Russell, Donna The Buffalo and Joan Armatrading, all at the acoustically superior Kent Stage in 2015. Get your tickets now for TheKentStage.com.
Composer/conductor Pierre Boulez is one of the greatest living classical musicians. As a composer he staked out ground in the atonal avant-garde early in his career, but he’s worked in many styles. As a conductor, he’s worked with virtually every major orchestra in the world. He spend two years in the early ’70s as Musical Advisor to the Cleveland Orchestra, which will be honoring his 90th birthday this week, playing some of his works as well as works he’s conducted with the Orchestra. Thu 1/15.
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Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s CEO, Eric Gordon, met with CMSD Student Advisory Committees in order to take suggestions on how to improve their system of education on Friday. Students from nearly 30 different CMSD schools came together at Windows on the River to discuss changes they need made in their class rooms.
Ideas were written down like: starting social justice or culture clubs, offering more field trips, bringing in more speakers, improving teaching, security and cafeteria food, and many more. The group was lead by keynote speaker Nina Turner, who recently ended a six-year run in the Ohio Senate.
Weekend Ink: Lake Erie Ink is hosting a play writing workshop. Write a play, see it performed and submit it to the Marilyn Bianchi Kids’ Play Writing Festival. Workshop takes place Sat 1/17.
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Free tax preparation from NHS Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland offers free tax prep to residents of NEO. Tax preparers are volunteers, professionally trained in tax law by the Cuyahoga Earned Income Tax Coalition. From 2012 to 2013, NHS of Greater Cleveland has earned tax payers over $1 million in tax refunds and helped save these clients over $150,000 in filing fees.
What are you waiting for? If you make under $50,000, you can file for free. Call 2-1-1 to schedule an appointment, or get more information and read our Top 10 Tax Tips here.
WED 1/14
Have you been noticing a lot more of your friends becoming vegans and thinking, nah, that’s too complicated? Rashid Mitcham, owner of Mo Bite Products, is here to tell you it’s not that hard. Learn more at this cooking demo.
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THU 1/15
Find your zen in a brewery w/ Balance & Brews, taking place this month @ Platform Beer Co. Enjoy a 60-min all level vinyasa flow followed by a brewery tour & a flight of house beers.
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FRI 1/16
Most art is at its core about light. So probably numerous other groups of 9 NEO artists could represent the subject as well as those featured in Heights Arts’ next show, Light Show, featuring artists who address light in a variety of media.
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SAT 1/17
Have a unique experience & attend Moonstruck CLE’s Tesori Strani. The Italian phrase for “strange treasures,” this exhibition will feature work from artist Bili Kribbs & be chalked full of fun exotic toy creations.
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SUN 1/18
Come talk with new County Executive Armond Budish @ First Unitarian Church. Budish will speak briefly about the challenges he faces & what priorities he will set for the next four years. But he’ll primarily be answering questions about concerns raised by the audience.
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MON 1/19
Honor the spirit & legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a day of free activities @ the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. The day will include a panel discussion, poetry, music, a peace pledge & an “I Have A Dream” craft.
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TUE 1/20
Spend a cold winter evening warming up w/ open mic @ the Root Cafe. Hear the unexpected while enjoying a delicious latte & vegetarian food.
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WED 1/21
Hearts and Minds: Hear a panel touch on persuasion, propaganda & ethics in the digital age @ the Maltz Museum. Does the explosion of media outlets and opinion-makers preserve a free society or make it more difficult to separate fact from fiction? Discuss.
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Another of the dirty little secrets of policing in America is the underreporting by police departments — in many instances on a vast scale — of crimes committed within a jurisdiction. One of the primary reasons has to do with property values…
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Observing the hysteria emanating from both the local and national media surrounding the “diminishing skills” of LeBron James and the correspondent “collapse” of the Cleveland Cavaliers as title contenders has once again provided a sobering insight into the silliness and stupidity abounding in the diversionary world of sports in general and Cleveland sports in particular…
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Enact Leelah’s Law to Ban Transgender Conversion Therapy
This has to stop. We are all human…
Robert Morgan
VIDEO: Collinwood High School Principal Learns How to Boogie from Her Students
Dance is a wonderful way to build bridges and a great form of self expression. Kudos to the kids and faculty!…
Janis
MANSFIELD: This Could Spell Trouble
I can’t help but wonder who will handle crime when the police are so afraid to do their job, they just don’t do it anymore. If the police role up on a bank robber running away, should they go for coffee?…
Westside Sue
DURSTIN: Rumors of Demise of LeBron & Cavs are Greatly Exaggerated
This is sensible and well-said. However, what worries me is not so much that they’ve been losing as the way they’ve been losing. I don’t see a growing cohesiveness among the players, starters or the second unit (what second unit?)…
Charles Michener
Cleveland Music Scene Mourns Ken Janssen
What a loss for cleveland rock n roll!!; the musical heavens are ringing the bells!…
John McGovern
he had a wonderful smile and sense of humor…
Anne Burke
Ken will always be a part of me — I wouldn’t be who I am today without him. My thoughts go out to his family. R.i.P. Ken…
Chris Young
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1) Two Photographers With David Lynch Vibe Share Show @ClePrintRoom
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3) Doug Blush: Oscar Winner Returns To N.E. Ohio
4) MANSFIELD: This Could Spell Trouble
5) Mondays are Just Great @RaysMTB
Thanks to our own creatives: Marty Bielat, Larry Durstin, Kendall Embrescia-Hridel, Mansfield Frazier, Anastasia Pantsios, Alexsandra Sukhoy, Sarah Valek, Elisa Vietri & Avery Ware. And lastly, though certainly not least, thanks to our readers and everyone who partners with us. Want to volunteer and contribute your writing to Cool Cleveland? Send your reviews, articles, or story ideas to: Events@CoolCleveland.com.
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